“On March 31, Florida Gulf Coast University’s (FGCU) Faculty Senate passed an Open Access policy! The Open Access Archiving Policy ensures that future scholarly articles authored by FGCU faculty will be made freely available to the public by requiring faculty to deposit copies of their accepted manuscripts in the university’s repository, DigitalFGCU.”
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Paying for Compliance: A Potential Path Forward for Institutional Repositories | The Scholarly Kitchen
“Elsevier is making major moves away from relying on content sales and toward a future based on selling services to the research community and others. The glaring need this potential service meets is the generally unsatisfactory performance of institutional repositories. Despite years of effort, key problems continue to plague institutional and funding agency repositories — significant effort and overhead for universities/funders, and poor researcher compliance resulting in a mostly empty storehouse. The Elsevier/Florida project, while not a complete solution, suggests how these problems could be solved.”
Scholarly Communications Librarian, Assistant/Associate Librarian
“Initial duties include promoting the University’s institutional repository; planning, implementing, and assessing FGCU’s [Florida Gulf Coast University’s] scholarly communications program; partnering with FGCU faculty and staff to collect, describe, and make accessible the university’s intellectual assets; providing outreach and consultations on depositing content, publishing options, author rights, copyright, and Open Access; developing tools, guides, web resources, and services; creating metadata for institutional repository and digital collections; engaging in service and scholarship; participating in assessment and continuous improvement of operations and services; and helping to shape department policy, goals, and procedures….”
Tallahassee, Florida STEM Data and Research Librarian Job at Florida State University – Higher Education Career Center by University Business
“The Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seek a STEM Data and Research Librarian to join a team of science librarians who are transforming library support for the sciences at FSU. This position has a dual support role with abundant opportunities for collaboration and growth….Qualifications: MLS from an ALA-accredited program or an equivalent combination of relevant advanced degree and library experience. Knowledge of best practices in information literacy, library instruction, reference services, and resources in support of STEM research. Knowledge of data management plans and federal grant requirements, open access concepts and application, and scholarly communication principles….Preferred: xperience with e-science, data literacy, data management, open access, and scholarly communication….”
scholcomm – [SCHOLCOMM] Florida State University Passes Open Access Policy – arc
[O]ur faculty senate [at Florida State U] decided to call a vote on a proposed open access policy. Our fearless leader and ScholComm Librarian, Devin Soper was giving a presentation with several of our faculty champions, and the vote was supposed to be called at the next meeting in March. After the presentation, the faculty senate president decided that everyone had enough information and asked for a motion to adopt the policy. A resounding [and unanimous] chorus(SHARE?) of “Ayes” later, and five years of blood, sweat and tears culminates in Florida State entering the ScholComm century as the 1st public university in Florida to pass a Harvard-style, rights-retention, the big kahuna, OA Policy.
Since we weren’t planning on promoting it until March, we have no press release/announcement (yet), except my guffawed tweet, and the policy and FAQ in our github repo….”
Scholarly Communications Librarian, Florida Gulf Coast University
“MLS/MLIS degree from an ALA-accredited program or foreign equivalent. Experience working with institutional repositories and/or scholarly communications issues….”